A man was standing on a train platform seeing the train off and he observed someone near him shouting at one of the departing passengers, "Goodbye. Your wife was a great lay! Your wife was a great lay!"

He was stunned.

After the train pulled away, he walked over to the man who'd done the shouting, and asked "Did I hear you correctly? Did you tell that man his wife was a great lay?"

I just don't know how this "life" thing is going to end up. I really don't.

I approach every day feeling like an absolute bitter failure. Everything I've tried to do career-wise hasn't panned out....and I fear more and more that it simply won't.

And worse, more and more, I fear that those whose opinion matters most to me.....now view me as a failure, and furthermore, are unhappy with me.

Every time I think it's turned the corner in that regard.....it goes right around back to where it was.

I'm turning 30 this year....and it's about to a point where I just don't care anymore if I live to see 40. I probably won't have the stones to knock myself off, but if I were to get cancer or something, I'd be like "Awesome. I don't have to feel like this anymore." (No medical help, please, I caught a glimpse of that road, and it's a dark, dark place where your freedom and choices are destroyed. I don't need a pill or a shrink. I need validation, respect, and to have something I've tried actually WORK, which would be a first.)

I honestly don't know how to fix things. How to keep myself and those I love from falling into these fits of despair.

If you've read this, thank you for taking the time to do so. God bless.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip. After a good meal and a bottle of wine they lay down for the night, and went to sleep.

Some hours later, Holmes awoke and nudged his faithful friend.

"Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see."

Watson replied, "I see millions and millions of stars."

"What does that tell you?"

Watson pondered for a minute. "Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Chronologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful and that we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?"

Holmes was silent for a minute, then spoke. "Watson, you idiot. Some bastard has stolen our tent."